2010 NW Wed Pro Bridal Fair

NW Wed Pro is excited to announce the 2010 Bridal Fair. Presented by NW Wed Pro, hosted at Willamette Valley Country Club and promotional contributions by Wedding Workbook!

Mark your calendar for February 6th AND 7th of 2010. Two days of fabulous wedding professionals, all under one beautiful roof in the banquet facilities of Willamette Valley Country Club in Canby, Oregon.

This is a Bridal Fair that you won't want to miss. If you've ever attend a Bridal Show at the Expo or convention center, you know how impersonal, crowded and overwhelming it can be. Vendors pay thousands of dollars for those booths and recoup it by charging higher fees for weddings.

NOT so with the NW Wed Pro Bridal Fair.

Enjoy your time, take in the wonderful views, stop and visit with the professionals while viewing samples of their work. With wine tasting, catering samples, "how-to" demonstrations, makeovers and fabulous prizes and drawings, you'll want to spend your day here. The vendors don't have to pay high booth fees, so those savings are reflected in their prices.

Your admission to the show is only $2. All proceeds will be donated to Clackamas Women's Services!

So SAVE THE DATE of Feb 6&7, then check back for more details soon to come.

Date: November 18, 2009

Time: 6pm – 8pm

Location: Cypress Oasis Room

Address: 820 Main St. Oregon City, OR 97045

The next meeting of NW Wed Pro network is one you won’t want to miss. We will be celebrating NWWP’s Anniversary with a fun holiday celebration.
Yes, it’s still a meeting but we will be taking time to recognize honored members, giving away great door prizes and enjoying delicious food from Cypress.

We will also discuss the NW Wed Pro Bridal Fair taking place in February. Only NWWP members will be featured at this fair.

Rsvp for November’s meeting.

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We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. Remember, there is no membership fee for NW Wed Pro. Each meeting is only $10. Check out everyone’s vendor listing at http://www.nwwedpro.com/
Enjoy photos of past meetings at http://www.nwwpnetwork.com/Events.html

Happy Holidays and Winter Weddings!

NWWP Network
Beverly Mason
The Radiant Touch Weddings
http://www.theradianttouch.com/
http://www.nwwedpro.com/
http://www.nwwpnetwork.com/

Holy Names, Batman!!!

That is what Robin would say if he saw this venue. J Holy Names Heritage Center was the beautiful setting of this month’s NW Wed Pro meeting.

Hello NW Wed Pro’s!

We had an great meeting this month at a little known wedding venue. The Heritage Center was built 2 years ago, yet it has the exterior look and feel of the 100 year old buildings on the campus. Beautiful architecture, state of the art design, water features and gardens, high ceilings, natural light and a great floor plan. Their new website pages to promote them as a wedding venue is coming soon!

We had a great turnout for this meeting. Thank you all! A quick recap of the meeting:

Registering at the door and entering business cards in the basket for door prize drawings.
Food table provided by NWWP had 6 kinds of specialty cheeses, crackers, fruit, sourdough, hummus, ham and cookies.
Wine selections were offered by Tara of St. Josef’s Winery.
Musical entertainment provided by Linda Smith of Notes of Celebration.
Jewelry display by Lea McWhorter of Sophisticated Beads who makes custom bridal party jewelry.

NWWP Chairperson, Beverly Mason, then spoke to the group about website optimization and link sharing. She also encouraged everyone to take advantage of the affordable and most often FREE printing of Vista Print and showed the NW Wed Pro cards, postcards, logo, posters and banners that were from Vista Print. We heard from vendors who recently had tables at Bridal Fairs around the region. The group discussed the idea of holding a NW Wed Pro Bridal Fair in the near future. $$dollar bills were given out in the game “It Pays to Refer to NW Wed Pro members”. Lots of referrals were given within the group last month.

Door Prize drawings were a leather business card portfolio that displays 75 cards for easy reference, a canvas NW Wedding Professionals tote bag, and a small personal size leather business card holder. Three winners were drawn from the basket.

Featured vendors were given a few minutes each to talk about their products, services and venues, then everyone else introduced themselves to the group.
Wrapping up the evening was enough time to visit and exchange cards with other wedding professionals.
If you have never attended one of these meetings, you are definitely missing out. Please come next month.

Holiday NW Wed Pro Meeting Event
November 18th 2009 Wednesday
6-8pm $10 door fee
Cypress Oregon City, Oasis Room
Choice of Tapa and Beverage
Rsvp in advance please

Thank you all for making NW Wed Pro a growing network in the Portland Wedding Business. Your ideas, suggestions, experience and knowledge is what makes this group a success.
See you next month!

Look who attended this month:

Holy names Heritage Center Sophisticated Beads Notes of Celebration
The Radiant Touch Weddings St. Josef’s Winery NW Wedding Services
Paradise Photography Whiskey Creek Outfitters Pearls & Roses Wed Adventure Weddings NW LLC Forever In Stone Rev. Carolina Moctezuma
A Perfect Ceremony Buenger Photography Focal Point Video
Sarah Galbraith Photography Shadow Masters & Sound NW Wedding Coordinators
Big Screen Presentations The Stafford Estate Sweet Dreams Bridal
Purple Iris Weddings CS Country Weddings Aussie DJ



Beverly Mason
The Radiant Touch Weddings
www.TheRadiantTouch.com
www.nwwedpro.com
www.nwwpnetwork.com

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Pacific Crest Grand Ballroom NW Wed Pro meeting recap

Hello NW Wed Pro’s!!!

Talk about an incredible meeting Monday night. This was one meeting NOT to be missed. NWWP met at the Pacific Crest Grand Ballroom Monday September 14th for their monthly meeting. The venue is beautiful. The ballrooms include over 10,000 square feet of space with a capacity of 490 people. They also teach ballroom dancing and give lessons. Michelle and Chris Small set up the room perfectly for our event.
Portland Catering Company provided delicious salad, meats an a decadent dessert of fresh made tiramisu. Heavenly!
Kelcema Productions shared his music and talents with the group and told us a little background about the company and origin of it’s name.

Our guest presenter was the Portland Wedding Workbook team. Four representatives of the company came to the meeting to answer all of our questions. This was a very exciting presentation. This was the first viewing of the brand new publication, plus, NINE NW Wed Pro members are featured in it with full page ads; Sophisticated Beads, The Aussie DJ, Floral Sunshine, Radiant Touch, Absolutely Only, Aaronstadt, Ainsworth House, Bell Tower Chapel and Gray Gables. Since the workbook only allows for four vendors in each category, this is a VERY strong showing for the group. View the online preview and look at our ads. http://www.uniflip.com/catalogs2/12210/21328/pub/index.html

The exciting part of the presentation was the offer of an “Affiliate Program”. By placing a banner ad on your website, you can make $10 for each book ordered through your banner ad. It’s as easy as that. Also, using our own banner to purchase books, we can buy them at a significantly reduced price (compared to the retail price) and offer them to our clients as an incentive.

Also, every single book has a travel certificate for a 7 day Carnival Cruise for 2 or airfare and 2 nts hotel to Cancun, or 7 nights hotel in Hawaii, or 7 nights hotel in Paris! Now how can you beat that????? Anyone can use it, not just brides and grooms!

So check out the affiliate page at https://www.mywebetools.com/seattlewedding/users/main.php
Sign up, be sure to choose paypal or check for your method of receiving payments. After your account is set up click on view products, select type of ad (banner or text) and scroll down past the Seattle banners till you see the variety of Portland ones. Copy and paste the code into pages of your website. You earn money for every book purchased through your banner. It’s as easy as that. You can also see the banners or purchase through them on our website at http://www.nwwedpro.com/
I noticed that some of the other members already had them up and running on their sites by this morning. I added a banner to 4 different pages on my http://www.theradianttouch.com/ site.

To top off a wonderful evening, we had TWO drawings at the meeting. Tiny impressions Photography won a leather portfolio. Then Portland Wedding Workbook team had me pick a number between 1 and 48. I chose 17. We were then told to look under our chairs for a number. A new member to the group, Trina Connolly-Fairchild of Ceremonies for Life had the winning number. She won Airfare and 2 nights hotel for two, to Cancun Mexico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a wonderful turn out for the meeting. 31 people were in attendance representing the following companies:

Rose City Mobile Music, Portland Wedding Workbook, Sophisticated Beads, Kelcema Productions, Adventure Weddings NW, Big Screen Presentations, Paradise Photography, Ceremonies for Life, Blissfully Yours, Tiny Impressions Photography, CL Steele Photography, Sarah Galbraith Photography, Absolutely Only, The Aussie DJ, Angela at Devine Studio, Daellas, Portland Catering Company, Pacific Crest Grand Ballroom, Cedar Springs Country Estate / CS Country Weddings, Floral Sunshine, Canby Wedding Chapel and Northwest Wedding Coordinators.

Thank you EVERYONE, for making it an incredible evening.

Next month we will meet at
Holy Names Heritage Center in Lake Oswego. 17425 Holy Names Dr. Lake Oswego, OR 97034-5193 http://www.holynamesheritagecenter.org/

October 21, 2009 WEDNESDAY 6-8pm

Rsvp please.

Upcoming Events Worth checking out!
Rose City Bridal Showcase. Oregon Convention Center. Saturday & Sunday September 26-27, 2009. Show Times: 10:00am to 5:00pm. Fashion Show Times: 11:30am ... http://www.rosecitybridalshowcase.com/

Portland-Vancouver Fall Wedding Expo October 3-4, 2009 Clark County Event Center http://www.bridesclub.com/bridal-shows/portland-vancouver-fall-wedding-expo.cfm

The Troutdale House Bridal Fair Oct 18, 2009 10am-4pm
http://www.thetroutdalehouse.com/contact.htm

Thanks for following NW Wed Pro on Blogger!

Sincerely,

Beverly Mason
The Radiant Touch Weddings
http://www.theradianttouch.com/
http://www.nwwedpro.com/
http://www.nwwpnetwork.com/

NW Wed Pro reminder

Good Morning NW Wedding Professionals!

Did you have a great wedding weekend? The weather was beautiful and quite warm. Well, it’s better than rain, right? Fortunately my Saturday wedding was at Multnomah Falls Lodge so it was shaded and much cooler there. Thursday evening at The Abernethy Center was perfect conditions for a wedding in the Veiled Garden. (thank you Eric of Rose City DJ’s, for making everything go so smooth)

Tonight (Monday, September 14th) is the next NWWP networking meeting being held at Pacific Crest Grand Ballroom in Oregon City. We still have space available if you would like to attend. 6-8pm $10

Many of you rsvp’d that you’d be attending and may be bringing a guest or two. If you are bringing a guest, please email me asap so that I can give the caterer a final head count.

I am looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Our presenter will be Portland Wedding Workbook

Delicious food provided by Portland Catering

Attending vendors: Rose City Mobile DJ – Sun Connections Travel – Sophisticated Beads – Kelcema Productions – Adventure Weddings – Big Screen Presentations – Paradise Photography – Rev. Caroline Moctezuma – Heather Scott Photography – Seriouscake.com – A Perfect Ceremony – Absolutely Only Photography – Big Mo DJ – Tiny Impressions Photography – CL Steele Photography – Radiant Touch Weddings, Shadow Masters & Sound, His Bakery, Floral Sunshine, Sarah Galbraith Photography, Canby Wedding Chapel, CS Country Weddings, The Aussie DJ

Remember to mention NW Wed Pro.com to all of your couples at every consultation and email correspondence. They will appreciate the help in finding quality, local wedding professionals.

Beverly Mason
The Radiant Touch Weddings
http://www.theradianttouch.com/
http://www.nwwedpro.com/
http://www.nwwpnetwork.com/

September 2009 NWWP Network

Hello NW Wedding Professionals!

Another month of 2009 wedding season has come and gone. August was a crazy month, wasn’t it? For some reason though, 2009 season seems to go right up through the end of September and into October this year. Keeping my fingers crossed for plenty more good weather. It was certainly a bit dicey this weekend. Torrential downpours and outdoor weddings keep everyone hopping.

August weddings took me to some of the most wonderful wedding venues and introduced me to so many wedding professionals. As mentioned in an earlier email, I was at The Royal Oaks Country Club, The Ainsworth House, The Aerie at Eagle landing, Canby Flower Farm, The Kelty House and The Broetje House. Every venue was very professional, courteous and beautiful.

August 22nd took me back up to Washington again for a wedding at The Fairgate Inn. Seeing the word “Inn” and “B&B” always brings to mind visions of quaint, small and cozy. Well, this place is certainly NOT that. The Fairgate Inn is the most grand estate I’ve ever seen. It looks like The White House in Washington DC! It is so elegant, spacious, and perfect for weddings. The banquet room is very large, the outdoor garden is perfect for the ceremony and the staff is wonderful. It was great working with Mike Moore of Big Screen presentations again as DJ and MC.


That same day I had a wedding at Willamette Valley Country Club in Canby. Another very nice venue in Clackamas County in a beautiful wooded setting, surrounded by a golf course. Rick, of Shadow Master photography did a wonderful job of capturing every moment. Shane, of Hurricane DJ provided music for the entire event.

Ok, I could go on and on about all of the wonderful venues and vendors but there are just too many to mention. So, just one last shout out to Anthony Wedin of Sound Choice entertainment for a wonderful job done at Edgefield, to Jonathan of Voila Catering (incredible food as usual) and to Amanda of Pretty in Portland. Thank you all for providing wonderful service at weddings this month. Great working with you all again.

Now on to new business. The next NW Wed Pro NWWP Network meeting is less than one week away! It is on a Monday this time.

Pacific Crest Grand Ballroom
September 14th 2009 6-8pm
$10

Please RSVP so that the venue can prepare the room to meet our needs.

There are TWO featured vendor tables still available.
Portland Wedding Workbook will be presenting.
Door Prizes
Appetizers and refreshments

Now is the time to be networking and building your referrals with other professionals. We are all busy booking for 2010 and can be giving our brides some great referrals for all of their wedding needs.

Looking forward to seeing you next week! Invite other professionals that you meet too!

Beverly Mason
The Radiant Touch Weddings
www.TheRadiantTouch.com
www.nwwedpro.com
www.nwwpnetwork.com